At least 257 for-profit higher education institutions receive more than 85 percent of their income from federal student aid. That figure, however, does not include military aid and benefits paid to individuals going to school on GI Bill benefits. In addition, although roughly 10 percent of for-profit college enrollment is More…
Via the Kansas City Star, a government report released this week found that foreign workers are at times abused and exploited under the H-2B visa program, which allows companies to hire foreign workers for temporary jobs they can’t fill with Americans. The Government Accountability Office found that some More…
One of the major tenets of the Bush administration’s border security plan was the Secure Border Initiative Network, or SBInet, a system of high-tech radars, satellites and cameras to monitor the borders. The “virtual wall” is being developed by Boeing, but four years after a contract was awarded More…
Three immigrants in Georgia filed what some experts said could be the first legal challenge to the 287 (g) program, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that allows the agency to delegate some immigration enforcement responsibilities to local police. The immigrants are seeking to have the case declared More…
Watchdog groups tend to cry foul when lobbyists solicit earmarks for their corporate clients from legislators. Lobbyists, in turn, often blame the groups for conjuring up images of corruption when congressmen are merely responding to their constituents’ needs. Yesterday, however, members of both tribes got together and presented a More…
Stan Delp, a 67-year-old retired teacher living in Lansdale, Penn., was sitting in church in June, 2008, when he noticed four unfamiliar black-haired men by him. He found they were new to the United States, having spent 11 years in refugee camp in Thailand. Delp’s church is not big — More…
Just minutes after the Senate passed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) Audit the Fed amendment 96-0, an amendment proposed by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) to strengthen Sanders’ amendment failed, 37-62.
Vitter wanted to sub in language requiring the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed continually. He proposed substituting language More…
Most state unemployment programs are flat broke, according to federal analysts, and the states themselves are largely to blame.
Thirty-four state unemployment insurance trust funds have run dry as a result of the recent recession, forcing those programs to take out nearly $40 billion in federal loans to weather the More…
An obscure Army contracting office with ties to the private security firm Blackwater has formally lost control of a lucrative contract to train Afghan police, the Pentagon and U.S. military officials in Afghanistan confirmed to TWI.
[Security1] The office, known as the Counter-Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office or CNTPO, came under More…
According to the AP, federal prosecutors are exploring whether to indict former Blackwater executives for illegally stockpiling weapons at the private security giant’s Moyock, N.C., headquarters. The AP reports that those execs might have obtained “the official letterhead of a local sheriff to create a false justification for buying” 22 More…
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